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Basketry: Techniques
There are several techniques used in basketry, most of them already known from the predynastic periods (5000-3000 BC). The most important in all earlier periods is coiling. Some techniques such as sewn-plaits and plaiting were introduced in the Ptolemaic Period (305-30 BC). Some of these new techniques became quite important. Coiled sandals, for example, were eventually replaced by plaited sandals. Baskets of the stake-and-strand type are also new in this period.
Coiling
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Weaving
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Twining
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Plaiting
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a bundle of material is fixed around a coil
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strands are made into a fabric by interlacing with
crossing strands
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several bundles are held by two strands which twist
around the bundles
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strands are interlaced with crossing strands
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Sewn-plaits technique
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Looping
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Piercing
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Binding
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long strips are plaited and then are sewn into a fabric
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a row of loops is linked to another row of loops
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rigid stems are connected by piercing them
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strands and sticks fastened with separate strands
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further reading:
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